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By The best hope for fairly distributing Covid-19 vaccines globally is at risk of failing. Heres how to save it Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by Article Enquiry The best hope for fairly distributing C...

English News and Press Release on World about Health and Epidemic; published on 14 Apr 2021 by WHO

Opening Ceremony of the High-level virtual Conference on expanding Africa’s vaccine manufacturing for health security Format Your Excellency President Felix Tshisekedi, Your Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, Your Excellency President Paul Kagame, Your Excellency [President] Moussa Faki Mahamat, Excellencies, distinguished guests, dear colleagues and friends, Good afternoon and thank you so much for the opportunity to share a few reflections with you today. The development, approval and ro...

How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine. Illustration by Kelsey Dake On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a month out, but the agency’s international brain trust knew enough to be worried. Burden...

Cop26: ‘Obscene’ vaccine inequality led to Greta Thunberg exit Date: 9 April 2021 Vaccine campaigners have said Greta Thunberg is “absolutely right” to condemn an uneven distribution of vaccines preventing low and middle income countries from participating in COP26 on equal terms. The Swedish climate campaigner said she will not attend the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow this November. Countries like the UK should “step up” and support waiving patents on Covid-19 vaccinations, as th...

The President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has joined world leaders and experts in an appeal for equitable and fair distribution of COVID-19...

Several effective COVID-19 vaccines have been developed in rapid time, but that may have been the easy part. Are intellectual property protections and for-profit pharmaceutical companies now getting in the way of vaccinating the worlds population? On the 12th of April 1955, the results of the largest clinical experiment in history were revealed. Called the Francis Field Trial, nearly two million children played a role in testing a novel polio vaccine that was found to be incredibly effective in...

Cuba’s vaccine March 16, 2021 “The life of just one person is worth more than the private property of the richest man.” This is what’s written on the Calixto Garcia public hospital in Havana Cuba as a testament to the country’s commitment to free public healthcare, and to putting people before profit. I know this about Cuba because in March, at the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic, I spent a week in the ICU at Calixto Garcia. I had been hit by a speeding ambulance, and Cuban do...

By Beth GEGLIA “The life of just one person is worth more than the private property of the richest man.” This is what’s written on…

Protesters Call On Moderna, Biden Administration To Expand Global Vaccine Access Protesters marched from Kendall Square to the Cambridge headquarters of Moderna on Thursday Craig LeMoult / GBH News Protesters gathered outside the Cambridge headquarters of Moderna on Thursday to call for greater global access to the technology behind the pharmaceutical companys successful COVID-19 vaccine. The group of about 20 activists, including local infectious disease physicians, marched down the middle of ...